Glycine] xliv. leguminos^e. 249 



33. GLYCINE L. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PI. i. p. 530. 



1. G. javanica L. Sp. PI. edit. 1, p. 754 (1753) ; Baker in Oliv. 

 Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 178. 



Huilla. — A twining, widely-climbing herb ; leaflets rather thick, 

 velvety-tomentose beneath ; flowers white, marcescent, quickly turning 

 reddish-brown ; calyx-lobes long-pilose-ciliate ; pods vesicular-inflated, 

 many-seeded. In bushy pastures, about Lopollo, by the path leading 

 to the forest ; fl. and young fr. middle and 23 March 1860. No. 2190. 



Var. j3. longicauda Baker, I.e. 



Golungo Alto. — A widely-climbing undershrub, with whitish 

 flowers. In thickets, along the left bank of the rivulet Delamboa, 

 infested with Bridelia, etc., and at the margins of forests about Sange ; 

 fl. and fr. from March to July 1855. No. 2185. Herbaceous, climbing ; 

 stem twining ; pods racemose ; near Aldea de Golungo Alto, in hot 

 situations ; fr. Oct. 1854. Coll. Carp. 534. 



2. G. micans Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 179. 

 Golungo Alto. — A suffrutescent herb, very widely climbing ; 



leaflets in the living state silvery-silky-pilose, shining, flowers whitish. 

 Abundant, at the borders of the damp woods of Sobato Mussengue ; 

 fl. and young fr. Oct. 1855. No. 2186. 



3. G.andongensis Welw. ex Baker in Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 179. 



Pun go Andongo. — An undershrub, climbing to a considerable height ; 

 flowers whitish, turning tawny in the drying. Bather rare, seen only 

 near Luxillo, at the borders of forests ; fl. April 1857. No. 2189. 



The following No., without flowers or fruits in the British 

 Museum set, differs from the last species by narrower and longer 

 mucronulate leaflets (2 to 3 by ^ to 1 in.) : — 



Golungo Alto. — A twining slender suffrutescent herb, climbing 

 far ; flowers not seen in a good state of development, apparently red 

 or whitish ; young pods sub-falcate, densely rigidly hirsute. Sparingly, 

 by thickets at the river Cuango, near TJndelle ; beginning of April 

 1856. No. 2188. 



4. G. hedysaroides Willd. Sp. PI. iii. p. 1060 ; Baker, I.e., p. 179. 

 Loanda. — An undershrub ; stem ■ below hard-woody, slender, 



branched at the height of half a foot ; branches elongated, 1 to 3 ft. 

 long, scandent ; leaves trifoliolate ; flowers axillary, small, white ; 

 stamens monadelphous ; anthers all alike ; pods bivalved, 4-5-seeded, 

 cellulose-septate between the seeds ; seeds sub-uniform, dark brown. 

 In neglected fields near Quicuxe, Cacuaco and Teba, on the left bank 

 of the river Zenza ; fl. and ripe fr. July 1854. No. 2214. 



34. TERAMNUS P. Br. ; Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. PL i. p. 530. 



1. T. labialis Spreng. Syst. Veg. iii. p. 235 (1826); Baker in 

 Oliv. Fl. Trop. Afr. ii. p. 180. 



Ambeiz. — An intricate-scandent herb, with small whitish flowers. 

 In exposed places formerly cultivated and at the time neglected, in the 

 forest near Mubango ; fl. without fr. Nov. 1853. No. 2213. 



Golungo. — Sporadic, by thickets near Bango-Aquitamba, at an 

 elevation of 2400 ft. ; fl. April 1855. No. 2187. 



Cazengo. — Twining on Hugonia (cf. Welw. Herb. No. 1585), at the 

 base of Serra de Muxaulo ; ripe fr. June 1855. No. 2187&. 



